Precooling studies of tropical fruits and vegetables.
Noomhorm A., Illangantileke S. G., Guzman J. D.
Author Affiliation: Div. Agric. and Food Engineering, Asian Inst. Tech., Bangkok, Thailand.
Paper - American Society of Agricultural Engineers : 7 pp.
Abstract : A system was designed and developed to precool tropical fruits and vegetables in 1 of 3 different modes: hydrocooling, air cooling/forced-air cooling or hydraircooling. Results for cucumber, mango and papaya showed them to be best precooled by hydraircooling, hydrocooling, forced-air cooling, resp.